Tag Archives: U.S. District Court – Western District

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court denies plaintiff company’s motion to allow two individuals to intervene in plaintiff’s suit alleging defendant committed acts that violated the civil racketeering statute, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1962 and 1964; although intervention would be proper under ...

A Saltville police officer who alleges he was terminated after he ran for town council and responded to a newspaper interview with comments the police department interpreted as alleging misappropriation of public funds has stated a claim under 42 U.S.C. ...

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant, a manufacturer of fragrance and personal care products, in this Title VII race discrimination suit filed by an African-American male who was terminated as defendant’s former director of quality control; ...

A Charlottesville U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge denies plaintiff’s motion for removal of defense counsel which seeks to disqualify the law firm of Williams Mullen from representing defendant U.S. Bank National Association on the basis of an alleged conflict because ...

A Roanoke U.S. District Court dismisses an African-American plaintiff’s alleging defendant property management company discriminated against her on the basis of race by refusing to clean her apartment of mold, replace the carpet or move her to a new apartment, ...

A Roanoke U.S. District Court rejects plaintiffs’ expert opinions on the origin of a fire at an automotive ball-bearing plant that injured plaintiffs, certified hazardous waste removal technicians employed by a third party that was hired by the plant to ...

An Abingdon U.S. District Court grants plaintiff’s motion to compel and orders defendant to respond to an interrogatory asking defendant Sprint to list all complaints against employees who allegedly used profanity on the job, from 2008 on, and state for ...

A pro se plaintiff’s blanket assertion that the city of Danville has a custom of withholding video and audio recordings of those who are arrested and this violated his constitutional right to have exculpatory evidence has not met the minimal ...

Two physicians employed by a staffing agency and working under contract with a veterans hospital were independent contractors, not government employees, and a plaintiff cannot sue the government under the FTCA for the doctors’ alleged medical malpractice in performing his ...

A bank call-center employee who was granted short-term leave for treatment for alcoholism cannot sue the bank for violation of the Americans with Disabilities after the bank terminated her in compliance with its policy on seeking approval for missed work ...